Ecology
Evolution
Vocabulary
Food
Miscellaneous
100
The smallest level of organization.
What is Single Organism?
100
The change in a species over time.
What is Evolution?
100
Someone who traveled on a ship and collected specimens to sell to wealthy people.
What is a naturalist?
100
An organism that only eats meat.
What is a Carnivore?
100
The second level of organization including the single organism's species.
What is population?
200
The recycling of Nitrogen in the environment.
What is the Nitrogen Cycle?
200
He is the father of evolution, was the naturalist on the ship the Beagle, and proposed the theory of natural selection.
Who was Charles Darwin?
200
Having died out
What is Extinct?
200
An organism that eats plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
200
Someone who studies Paleontology, or the study of prehistoric life?
What is a paleontologist?
300
The process of Symbiosis where one organism benefits and the other isn't harmed.
What is Commensalism?
300
Imprints or remains of plants or animals that existed in the past.
What are fossils?
300
A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce fertile offspring.
What are Species?
300
An organism that makes its own food.
What is an autotroph?
300
This diagram shows how energy moves through the ecosystem.
What is a food web/pyramid?
400
The recycling of oxygen and carbon in the environment occurs between __________________________.
What are plants and animals in water and on land?
400
The idea that nature selects who will survive and pass on traits.
What is Natural Selection?
400
A role of an organism in its community or environment.
What is a Niche?
400
An organism that eats dead or decaying materials.
What is a decomposer?
400
The arrows point to who gets the energy in a____________.
What is a food web?
500
As you move up the pyramid,energy is lost. As you move up it shows what it eats.
What is the method of how energy is shown in the Energy Pyramid?
500
- Homologus structures are evolved from similar body parts. - Analogus structures have the same function, but not the same structure.
What is the difference between Homologus and Analogus?
500
-DOUBLE OR NOTHING- Division of an area with a similar climate, plants, and animals.
What is a Biome?
500
An organism that gets its food from another source.
What is a heterotroph?
500
Ex 1: Flowers and bees Ex 2: Sharks and Remora fish Ex 3: Deer tick and deer
What are examples of Mutualism, Commensalism, and Parasitism?